[THEHILL] The Charlottesville, Va. city council on Tuesday unanimously approved a move for its now-infamous statue of Confederate leader Robert E. Lee to be melted down to create public artwork that will "reflect racial justice," The New York Times
... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported.The city council will give the statue to the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, which plans to melt the monument to create a new piece of public artwork, according to the measure.
The city council selected the Jefferson School’s proposal "Swords Into Plowshares," from other potential bidders for the statue, according to The Times.
According to its Indiegogo campaign page, the Jefferson School plans to "transform a national symbol of white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values... into a new work of art that will reflect racial justice and inclusion."
"It is a community based project that all of the voices in the community will be able to articulate what we want in our public spaces, as opposed to objects that were given to our community that highlighted a particular ideology that we no longer share," Jefferson School center executive director Andrea Douglas said.
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That "deadly white [hillbilly] rally,"
Per press, with its dubious tally
Of one, is surpassed
By Black bodies amassed Every hour on walks through the valley:
All-Black M.L.K. or back alley.
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So, I guess we can ask, will the statue be anatomically correct? For learnin' the chilluns, ya know...
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^ quite possibly.
If placed near a local public school the new statue could serve two purposes:
1) venerate St George, and
2) supplement the Woke $ex Ed curriculum by using St George and his hooping maneuver to demonstrate the technique of anaI self-pleasuring with one's own fentanyl-greased member
[BloombergLaw] The Biden administration’s mandate for federal contractors’ employees to be vaccinated will be halted nationwide, amid a slew of challenges from states that say the president overstepped his authority in requiring the Covid-19 shots.
The mandate, which was set to take effect on Jan. 4, applies to roughly a quarter of the U.S. workforce and affects companies that do business with the federal government, including Lockheed Martin Corp., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc.’s Google, and General Motors Co.
A federal judge in Georgia blocked the mandate on Tuesday. The latest order follows a Kentucky federal judge’s grant last week of a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit involving Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.
The government contractor mandate spurred a series of federal lawsuits from states seeking to block its implementation, including Arizona, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and Georgia. They argue that the administration lacks the authority to require vaccinations and the mandates violate the U.S. Constitution.
As set forth in more detail in its Order, a Georgia federal district court judge today issued an injunction halting enforcement of Executive Order 14042, which requires that federal contractors and subcontractors with specific types of covered contracts ensure that their covered employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 18th, 2022.
I would be very interested in the entire statement and the context in which it was said — this reads like clickbait, though I don’t know enough to say.
[DailyBeast] Dan Crenshaw Blasts GOP Freedom Caucus: They’re ’Grifters’ and ’Performance Artists’
Besides calling out attention-seeking colleagues like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz, Crenshaw also surprisingly heaped praise on pariah Adam Kinzinger.
Crenshaw came to the defense of current GOP pariah and avowed Trump critic Adam Kinzinger, praising the retiring Illinois congressman for his conservative voting record.
"Adam Kinzinger voted with Trump almost 99 percent [of the time]. He was number two," Crenshaw said of the Illinois lawmaker, who is one of only two Republicans on the Jan. 6 House select committee.
As for the Freedom Caucus—which consists of headline-making congresspeople such as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar, and Matt Gaetz—Crenshaw pointed out that the group largely sits at the bottom of the Trump-supporting pile.
Rep. Dan Crenshaw slams 'grifters in our midst' as he criticized 'performance artists' of the House Freedom Caucus who issue 'lie after lie after lie' during campaign event in Texas
He is the latest high-profile figure to take issue with GOP members who hog the headlines with outlandish claims
But he defended Rep. Adam Kinzinger who he said voted with Trump 99 percent of the time - but is now hated by MAGA world for joining Jan 6 investigation
Wowie! Dan Crenshaw trashes ‘Freedom Caucus’ members Greene, Brooks, Gohmert, Gosar, Jordan, etc, as “performance artists” while defending Kinzinger. “We have grifters in our midst .. lie after lie after lie.” 🍿 pic.twitter.com/hoaGOcOx9s
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Dan Bongino discussed Crenshaw and his remarks on the Tuesday podcast (Rumble). Bongino outright called Crenshaw a liar. Maybe someone can put that video here...
Apparently Crenshaw lied about Kinzinger voting record. His "liberty score" was 45 out of 100.
Notional Review cruises. Lincoln Project contributions. Yes, yes, the stuff that pushes back the marxist world takeover project.
Cripe...
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Easy to see
With a glass eye. Nice play if you meant it...
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secular conservatism?
The GOP under Trump has jettisoned the Country Club Republicans in favor of the blue-collar folks that form the backbone of this country. This demographic shift puts the party closer to the way it was under Reagan before the Bush clan took over.
It is not a secular/religious divide, it is more like Omega vs Deltas as far I can tell.
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I don't want to belong to any club that will have me."
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I don't get it, fighting within the conservative ranks or just jockeying for non-positions on positions?
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Crenshaw is not a conservative. The people "fighting" are not conservatives.
Got it?
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Samuel Alexander Mudd Sr. (December 20, 1833 – January 10, 1883) was an American physician who was imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
After Booth's death on April 26, 1865, Mudd was arrested and charged with conspiracy to murder Lincoln. The prosecution called 366 witnesses.
On June 29, Mudd was found guilty with the others. The testimony of Louis J. Weichmann was crucial in obtaining the convictions. According to historian Edward Steers, the testimony presented by former slaves was also crucial, but it faded from public memory.[20] Mudd escaped the death penalty by one vote and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Surratt, Powell, Atzerodt and Herold were hanged at the Old Penitentiary at the Washington Arsenal on July 7, 1865.
Mudd was just 49 years old when he died of pneumonia, on January 10, 1883, and was buried in the cemetery at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bryantown, the same church in which he once met Booth.
[Wash Examiner] She was a toxic commie POS who should never have been nominated
They tried and failed. This time the system worked as intended.
Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden's pick for comptroller of the currency, has withdrawn herself from consideration.
Omarova faced broad opposition from the banking industry and Republicans, as well as skepticism from centrist Democrats, because of her controversial academic writings and proposals, including her advocacy for the end of banking "as we know it."
The Cornell Law professor told Biden in a Tuesday letter that her nomination was "no longer tenable." Omarova's allies on Capitol Hill had accused her opponents of redbaiting, as she was born in the Soviet Union and attended Moscow State University.
"It was a great honor and a true privilege to be nominated by President Biden to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency overseeing the U.S. national banking system," she said in a letter to the White House withdrawing from consideration.
During her November confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee, Omarova also faced scrutiny over her recent comment that "we want" oil and gas companies to go bankrupt in order to fight climate change. She conceded during the hearing that she should not have framed her argument the way she did. While Republicans in the hearing largely stuck to questioning her policy positions and academic writings, some probed for questions about her past, including details about her thesis from college.
"I don’t mean any disrespect, I don’t know whether to call you professor or comrade," said GOP Sen. John Kennedy in an attack that drew condemnation from Democrats.
"Senator, I’m not a communist. I do not subscribe to that ideology. I could not choose where I was born," she responded.
Biden responded to her withdrawal by invoking combative remarks about her nomination from some on the Right.
"As a strong advocate for consumers and a staunch defender of the safety and soundness of our financial system, Saule would have brought invaluable insight and perspective to our important work on behalf of the American people," the president said. "But unfortunately, from the very beginning of her nomination, Saule was subjected to inappropriate personal attacks that were far beyond the pale."
Democrats have a wire-thin majority in the Senate and can’t afford to lose even a single vote. In the days after Omarova's hearing, it was reported that centrist Democratic Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, Mark Warner of Virginia, Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, John Hickenlooper of Colorado, and Mark Kelly of Arizona expressed opposition to her nomination.
This isn't the first Biden nominee to fall through. Neera Tanden's nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget was withdrawn in light of Twitter posts she had made attacking lawmakers. Biden also withdrew David Chipman's nomination to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over his gun control positions.
[WSJ] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him... has done enormous damage to New York City over his eight years in office, and most New Yorkers will be elated to see him leave on Dec. 31. True to form, however, on Monday he announced one more progressive parting gift: A coercive and counterproductive Covid vaccine mandate.
The mayor is requiring that all private workers in the city be vaccinated by Dec. 27, which he called "a pre-emptive strike" against a virus surge this winter. The mandate is a strike against the city, not the virus. It will yield diminishing public-health benefits while making it harder for the city to recover economically from his and former New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo ...former Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he had about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him when he resigned... ’s destructive lockdowns.
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The days between 27 Dec and 1 Jan might be a very good time for the NYC business community to demonstrate massive refusal to comply with such an idiotic order.
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If Comrade Joe can't get away with it neither can Comrade Bill. Court has or will strike it down.
I suppose it is more of a virtue signaling thing for DeBlasio, something to campaign on.
[WSJ] WASHINGTON—Saule Omarova, President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan...... ’s nominee to oversee large national banks, withdrew from consideration on Tuesday, amid opposition from Republicans and moderate Democrats who had sought to block her nomination, the White House said.
"I have accepted Saule Omarova’s request to withdraw her name from nomination," President Biden said Tuesday, saying he would look for a new nominee.
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[FoxNews] Maryland, Illinois do nearly same thing DOJ is suing Texas for.
Texas on Monday became the first state to be sued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) over its proposed congressional redistricting map, raising questions about whether other heavily gerrymandered states could be next and whether Democrat-controlled states are at risk of being sued too.
"Our complaint today alleges that the redistricting plans approved by the Texas state legislature and signed into law by the Governor will deny Black and Latino voters an equal opportunity to participate in the voting process and to elect representatives of their choice," Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said Monday.
The lawsuit follows warnings from Attorney General Merrick Garland earlier this year that the DOJ is open to suing states if it believes their maps are gerrymandered to limit minority representation. But Texas is far from the only heavily gerrymandered state in the union. Republican-controlled Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Democrat-controlled Maryland and Illinois, are among the worst offenders.
Fox News asked the DOJ Monday if it may sue any other states for gerrymandering, including blue states. The department declined to comment.
The DOJ's lawsuit against Texas specifically alleges that the state uses a technique called "cracking" to split urban minority populations into several congressional districts that rope in large suburban and rural White populations. This creates districts that overall lean Republican and limits the opportunity minorities have to elect members that represent their specific interests, the department said.
"The enacted Congressional plan intentionally discriminates against minority voters in DFW by excising rapidly changing communities from DFW-based districts and attaching them instead through a narrow strip to several heavily Anglo counties," the DOJ's lawsuit against Texas says.
"By cracking minority communities and submerging urban minority voters among rural Anglos, the Congressional map effectively turns back a decade of rapid Latino population growth and preserves Anglo control of most remaining districts, particularly District 24," it adds.
This created several "Anglo-controlled districts," in the DFW area, the DOJ said. The DOJ alleges that Texas did the same in the Houston area.
But Texas is not nearly the only state to split up voters in minority-heavy cities for seemingly political purposes. Maryland's and Illinois' maps do essentially the same thing.
In the Maryland legislature's final proposed map, Baltimore City is split into three different congressional districts that reach far out into the state's suburbs and rural areas. The 7th Congressional District is shaped like an "S" and cuts through the heart of Baltimore, before reaching into the outlying areas north and south of the city – as far as the rural community Stablersville just 10 miles south of Pennsylvania.
The 3rd Congressional District is shaped like a giant "M." It starts in the rural farming areas along the Mason-Dixon line, dips down into Baltimore city, then juts south to Washington, D.C.’s, northwest suburbs in Glenmont. The 2nd Congressional District includes the southeast part of Baltimore as well as many of its suburbs to the north, east and south.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
[DailyBeast] Dan Crenshaw Blasts GOP Freedom Caucus: They’re ’Grifters’ and ’Performance Artists’
...former Dem dynastic governor of Noo Yawk, the son and heir of the late Mario Cuoma and formerly married to a Kennedy. Acclaimed for his leadership during the COVID epidemic, he managed the nation's highest corpse count while successfully hiding the returns and writing a book praising himself. Among the nation's horniest politicians, he had about a dozen allegations of sexual harrassment and groping against him when he resigned...
...... 46th president of the U.S. Joe's wife and daughter weren't killed by a drunk driver. He didn't graduate with three or even two degrees, wasn't in the top half of his law class, and his daddy didn't come home from a hard day's work in the mines and play football with the guys. The NAACP hasn't endorsed him every time he's run. On the other hand, he did abandon Afghanistan......
